<TITLE>03. Par 18-31</TITLE>L-18 Oh, if the church could only see that and see the promises that's lotted for each age! All other ages, God has sent on the scene (even down through the seven church ages) and has manifested everything that He promised to do. Everything, there's not one thing left undone. Exactly! What He said He would do, that He did.

L-19   Because when God said, in back there in Isaiah, He said, "A virgin shall conceive," and she did. Now, who--who can interpret that? God done the interpretation. He said, "A virgin shall conceive," and she conceived. Now, what are you... you can't... Nothing can be said about that, because God said she would and she did it. But the church was too blind then to see it. See, they had their own idea of it. It was too--too different than what they was expecting.

L-20 Peter here was referring back, he said, "God manifested Christ by His Word, He said, 'This is My beloved Son.'" These believers were standing there. And Christ was the manifestation of God. He always manifested Christ by His Word, because Christ is the Word. He manifests always.

L-21   When He said... In the days of Noah, Christ was in Noah. Do you believe that? Noah said, "It's going to rain. There'll be a rain, the earth will be destroyed." It rained. That didn't need any interpretation. It rained because God, in Noah, said, "It's going to rain." He was a prophet, and the evidence was that what he said come to pass. So they don't need to interpret that.

L-22 Some of them might, around, said, "This man don't know what he's talking about."

L-23 But God had always promised, "If there be one among you who is spiritual, or prophet, and what he says comes to pass, then hear it." That's right, because it's true. It must be in accordance with the Word. And Noah was in accordance with the Word. When he prophesied it's going to rain, and it rained. That didn't need any interpretation for that, because it did just that.

L-24 Isaiah said, "A virgin shall conceive," and she did. Now, that was awful unusual. For, see, it was many hundred years later before this virgin conceived.

L-25   It was so unusual until a good man by the name of Joseph, her husband, "being a just man and was not willing to make her a public example..." That good man in those days, how it must have been with Joseph when he was engaged, espoused to Mary.

L-26 She was espoused. In that day, to break that, was just the same as committing adultery. And, of course, to Joseph, it seemed like that Mary was trying to use him for a blockade, or make him be a shield for her wrong, 'cause here she was found to be a mother, not being married, only engaged. A trick like that, would be stoned to death; it had to be, by the law.

L-27 And Joseph, her husband, was a just man, a very just man. He believed God. And when she'd look at him with those lovely, big soft eyes, and say, "Joseph, Gabriel the Archangel visit me and told me that I was going to conceive, knowing no man."

L-28 Now, if Joseph would have just looked back in the Scripture, the prophet said she'd do that! It was only God interpreting His Own Word! See? But it was too unusual.

L-29   That's what's the matter in any age. The Word of God is foreign to people; It's too unusual. God always does the unusual. It's unusual anywhere God is. It's against the systematics of the world, because that they've got things the way that they think it should be. But God comes in and does the unusual.

L-30 "How could this virgin conceive?" He was honest, he sought God about it.

L-31 And then God spoke to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. God has overshadowed her. This is what's done it."


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